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301. Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
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A. Antony and Cleopatra

B. Volpone

C. King Lear

D. Othello

302. Which royal dynasty was established in the resolution of the so-called War of the Roses and continued through the reign of Elizabeth I ?
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A. Windsor

B. Tudor

C. Lancaster

D. York

303. The Gothic novel, a popular genre for the Romantics, exemplified in the writing of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, could contain which of the following elements ?
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A. all of the above

B. plots of mystery and terror set in inhospitable, sullen landscapes

C. supernatural phenomenon

D. perversion and sadism, often involving a maidens persecution

304. How many children were there in the Bronte family?
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A. 3

B. 6

C. 4

D. 5

305. Which poet was a member of the powerful and culturally influential Sidney family ?
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A. Mary Wroth

B. Aemilia Lanyer

C. Samuel Daniel

D. Ben Jonson

306. Who wrote: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Hart Crane

B. T.S. Eliot

C. William Carlos Williams

D. Ernest Hemingway

307. Which of the following refers to the small area of Ireland, extending north from Dublin, over which the English government could claim effective control ?
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A. the Protectorate

B. Ulster

C. the Pale

D. West Britain

308. Why did the rebels of 1381 target the church, beheading the archbishop of Canterbury ?
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A. The common people were still essentially pagan.

B. Their leaders were Lollards, advocating radical religious reform.

C. The church was among the greatest of oppressive landowners.

D. They believed that writing, a skill largely confined to the clergy, was a form of black magic

309. What was the only acknowledged religion in England during the early sixteenth century ?
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A. Protestantism

B. Ancestor-worship

C. Atheism

D. Catholicism

310. Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ____________?
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A. William Godwins Caleb Williams

B. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

C. Jane Austens Emma

D. Sir Walter Scotts Waverley

311. In which work do you read: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ?
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A. Sonnets from the Portuguese

B. Prelude

C. The Last Decalogue

D. Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock

312. In which of the following works is the social outcast represented and addressed ?
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A. William Worsworths Lyrical Ballads

B. all but C

C. John Keatss To Autumn

D. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys Frankenstein

313. Which was not among the \new\genres promoted by poets such as Jonson, Donne, and Herbert ?
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A. the classical satire

B. the epigram

C. the country-house poem

D. the Petrarchan sonnet

314. The churchyard of St. Pauls Cathedral was well-known for its____________?
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A. ruinous condition.

B. performing bears.

C. graffiti.

D. bookshops.

315. What name is given to the English literary period that emulated the Rome of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid ?
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A. Romantic

B. Metaphysical

C. Neo-Romantic

D. Augustan

316. Which of the following poems describe or celebrate an apocalyptic regeneration of humanity and the world effected by the creative capacity of the human mind ?
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A. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Woman

B. Coleridges Dejection: An Ode

C. Blakes Prophetic Books

D. all but C

317. What London locale, where many poor writers lived, became synonymous with hacks and scandal mongers ?
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A. Cheapside

B. Covent Garden

C. Grub Street

D. Elephant and Castle

318. Which poet could be described as part of \The Movement\of the 1950s ?
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A. Thom Gunn

B. Dylan Thomas

C. Philip Larkin

D. both A and C

319. Why didnt Alexander Pope attend an English university ?
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A. He lived in Italy until the age of 27

B. He was a Catholic, and therefore forbidden from attending

C. Asthma, headaches, and spinal deformity made him an invalid

D. He just wasnt bright enough

320. What impulse probably accounts for the rise of distinguished translations of works, such as Homers lliad and Odyssey, into English during the sixteenth century ?
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A. a and c only

B. human reverence for the classics

C. the belief that the English were direct descendants of the ancient Greeks

D. pride for the vernacular language

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